In October the Washington Nationals made it to the play offs for the first time in 79 years! We were lucky enough to get tickets to 2 of the play off games.
It was such a different atmosphere to a regular game. Normally the place is less than 1/2 empty when a game starts and slowly more people drift in to their seats but it's still rarely more than 3/4s full. For this playoff game, everyone was in their seat at the start of the game and we didn't leave our seats for the whole game! It was brilliant game, especially because the Nats won!
As the Nats won last night, it meant we were back at Nats Park the following night for the final game of the series. Whoever won this game, would go through to the next round.
It was Chris' birthday so we were hoping he got a good birthday present!
The game started so well, the Nats were 6-0 up by the end of the 3rd inning.
Bryce scored a home run...
Teddy won the President's race...
Then it all started to go wrong. The Cardinals scored 3 in the 4th and 5th innings so the atmosphere started to dip. Going into the 9th inning the score was 7-5, then the Cardinals scored 4 runs to win the game. There was just silence in the ball park, everyone just stood up and quietly walked out. What a difference to the atmosphere 24 hours earlier!
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